RE: [xliff] Minimum set of container elements for XLIFF 2.0

["Rodolfo M. Raya" <rmraya@maxprograms.com>]

Hi Yves,

Grouping <unit> elements does not require a parent element; this can be done using an attribute. 

In simple terms, all <unit> elements at a given level in the source document would have the same value in an attribute that we could name "set" or "group". The value of the attribute can relate them as needed. Applications not needing to support grouping could safely ignore the attribute.

If we add an element like the old <group>, we will have <unit> elements at different nesting levels. That's extra complexity that we may not like or need if we are trying to simplify.

Regards,
Rodolfo
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Rodolfo M. Raya       rmraya@maxprograms.com
Maxprograms       http://www.maxprograms.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xliff@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:xliff@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf
> Of Yves Savourel
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 7:25 PM
> To: xliff@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [xliff] Minimum set of container elements for XLIFF 2.0
> 
> Hi Rodolfo, Bryan, all,
> 
> > We don’t need <group>. With <unit> as container of multiple <segment>
> > elements we have enough.
> > You can consider that the old <group> is equivalent to the new <unit>
> > and the old <trans-unit> is the equivalent of the new
> > <segment>/<ignorable> pair.
> 
> You make it sound like the v1.2 <group> is used to group segments and that a
> <trans-unit> is a segment. That is incorrect. The Segmentation section[1] of
> the v1.2 specification clearly defines how to represent segmentation using
> <trans-unit>/<seg-source>/<mrk mtype='seg'>. Any other way to represent
> segmentation in v1.2 is not the standard one and is not interoperable.
> 
> But we went through that discussion several times in the past years, and
> there is not point rehashing it :)
> 
> More importantly (and regardless of v1.2 segmentation) in v2.0 we need
> <group> to provide a way to map (completely or partially) the
> hierarchy/structure that may exist in the original document. Basically to
> delimit different sets of units. For example the units in a given table, or in a
> dialog box, a menu, or to separate different types of content, etc. Nothing
> mandatory there obviously, but the possibility to structure the extracted
> content is needed and should be part of the core.
> 
> I hope to be able to finish the preliminary proposal for this soon. There is a bit
> of it already there: [2]
> 
> Cheers,
> -yves
> 
> 
> [1] http://docs.oasis-open.org/xliff/v1.2/os/xliff-
> core.html#Struct_Segmentation
> [2] http://wiki.oasis-open.org/xliff/XLIFF2.0/Feature/Grouping
> 
> 
> 
> 
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